Please just send a patch to the list :)

> On 7 Jul 2022, at 15:54, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
>> Hello,
>>> On 7 Jul 2022, at 15:49, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Michael,
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>>> On 7 Jul 2022, at 15:30, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello Michael,
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks for your reply.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> Indeed we don’t need to ship them, we can generate them instead.
>>>>>> But that has of course some downsides, too:
>>>>>> * It is slow
>>>>>> * It is not entirely error-proof (out of disk space, out of memory, system being rebooted too early)
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I guess the first newly introduced line ("dracut --regenerate-all --force") of
>>>>> my patch is obsolete then, as the initrds are already there - we just need the directives
>>>>> for ARM.
>>>> Those should be shipped, too. Adding more size to the updater when shipping the same stuff multiple times.
>>>>> To my understanding, if dracut fails due to space/memory issues, the upgrade would have
>>>>> failed either way.
>>>> My point was that extracting the update would consume less memory. Disk space constraints still apply unless there is not enough temporary space.
>>>>> Do you want me to submit a v2 of this patch without the dracut directive? Or should I
>>>>> commit this straight to next, and you cherry-pick it into master?
>>>> We should either ship everything, or generate everything. I don’t think a mix is good idea.
>>> 
>>> agreed.
>>> 
>>> Then, this boils down to an "rm" statement on 32-bit ARM, and I will omit regenerating
>>> the initds - that's how Core Update 169 has been thus far, and there were no complaints
>>> whatsoever.
>>> 
>>> I will push this straight to next and get back to you shortly...
>> We probably don’t want this in next. That already has c170.
> 
> true, but I cannot push to "master". Is it feasible for you to cherry-pick 5ead33d796b9537bddbc4e2d5d27029de4df001a?
> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller
>>> 
>>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>> Peter Müller
>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>>>> Peter Müller
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I do not really have much of a preference. The only thing I want to say is that ARM needs to get their shit together and being able to load a regular image instead of asking for extra commands here - or build that into dracut.
>>>>>> -Michael
>>>>>>> On 7 Jul 2022, at 07:48, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello *,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> to my understanding, we do not need to ship "linux-initrd" if we can easily
>>>>>>> rebuild those on the systems anyway. I would prefer the latter, since that
>>>>>>> keeps the update smaller.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This was also raised somewhere in the community a while ago, but I am unable
>>>>>>> to find the correspondent thread at the moment.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> How do we proceed here?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>>>>>> Peter Müller
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> https://community.ipfire.org/t/again-with-the-file-system-full-core-169/8186
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh b/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh
>>>>>>>> index 3902e2d45..50f0bd8a4 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh
>>>>>>>> +++ b/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh
>>>>>>>> @@ -150,6 +150,19 @@ ldconfig
>>>>>>>> # Apply sysctl changes
>>>>>>>> /etc/init.d/sysctl start
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> +# Regenerate all initrds
>>>>>>>> +dracut --regenerate-all --force
>>>>>>>> +case "$(uname -m)" in
>>>>>>>> +	armv*)
>>>>>>>> +		mkimage -A arm -T ramdisk -C lzma -d /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img /boot/uInit-${KVER}-ipfire
>>>>>>>> +		rm /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img
>>>>>>>> +		;;
>>>>>>>> +	aarch64)
>>>>>>>> +		mkimage -A arm64 -T ramdisk -C lzma -d /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img /boot/uInit-${KVER}-ipfire
>>>>>>>> +		# dont remove initramfs because grub need this to boot.
>>>>>>>> +		;;
>>>>>>>> +esac
>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>> # Start services
>>>>>>>> telinit u
>>>>>>>> /etc/init.d/firewall restart